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Free Download Why? : Making Sense of God's Will By Adam Hamilton
2018 | 53 Pages | ISBN: 1501858289 | EPUB | 1 MB
Where is God when tragedy and suffering strike? When the ground shakes, and a poor nation's economy is destroyed; when the waters rise, washing away a community's hopes and dreams; when a child suffers neglect and abuse; when violence tears apart nations; where is God; If God is all powerful, and if each one of us is a beloved child of God, then how can God allow tragedy and suffering to infest his creation? In Why?, best-selling author Adam Hamilton brings fresh insight to the age-old question of how to understand the will of God. Rejecting simplistic answers and unexamined assumptions, he lays out core ideas for comprehending God's plan for the world, including: God will not take away our free will, even when we use it to grieve him. God will never abandon us, especially in the midst of our suffering. While God is not the author of suffering, God will bring blessing out of tragedy.

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Free Download Whole By Philip Osment
2013 | 62 Pages | ISBN: 184943445X | EPUB | 1 MB
What happens when you're in a hole? What happens when that hole's inside you? What do you do you fill it with to make yourself feel whole? Last year, 3 teenagers emailed the 20 Stories High Theatre Company to ask them if they could make a play about their friend Holly. This is how it unravelled... 3 teenagers: ...So that's our story and we really want to tell it... and we want to act in it as well, and play ourselves... cos actors wouldn't really be as convincing as us... 20 Stories High: It's a very moving story... but we're really busy at the moment and also, to be honest, you're not really actors. 3 teenagers: But we really want to tell our story... it says on your website that "Everybody has a story to tell... and their own way of telling it..." 20 Stories High: ...well, come back in a year, when we're less busy, and let's talk... One Year Later... We made the play with them... WHOLE

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Free Download Who Has Bewitched You? a Study in Galatians By Alan J. Spence
2014 | 93 Pages | ISBN: 1842278274 | EPUB | 1 MB
A study of Paul's letter to the Galatians as a way to understanding the nature of the gospel, justification by faith, the law, the Holy Spirit, Christian freedom, being one with Christ, and the challenges those truths faced in Paul's day, at certain key stages in the history of the Church, and today. This accessible study reveals Paul's argument in Galatians and applies it to today's church. COMMENDATIONS "Written to some of the earliest Christian communities to resolve an urgent and immediate crisis regarding religious liberty, Galatians has continued to lead millions to personal freedom over the centuries. Alan Spence here engages with Galatians in a way that makes Paul's brief and passionate letter speak with fresh power today." - Vin Roy, Baptist Theological College of South Africa

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Free Download Who Are the Church? : Who Are the Church? By Joseph A Komonchak
2008 | 87 Pages | ISBN: 0874625882 | PDF | 1 MB
In "Who are the Church," Joseph Komonchak gives us a concise recapitulation of the insights he has gained over a long and esteemed career as a scholar, historian and ecclesiologist. The book may be read as an invitation to Christians of whatever variety to think responsibly about the concrete reality to which the term "the Church" refers. Far from denying the transcendental element, Komonchak leads the reader away from an artificial transcendentalism and in the direction of discovering the authentically transcendental element of the Church as it exists in the concrete reality of the community of disciples.

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Free Download Who Are These People Anyway? By Irving Powless; Lesley Forrester
2016 | 211 Pages | ISBN: 0815634498 | EPUB | 1 MB
In the rich tradition of oral storytelling, Chief Irving Powless Jr. of the Beaver Clan of the Onondaga Nation reminds us of an ancient treaty. It promises that the Haudenosaunee people and non-Indigenous North Americans will respect each other's differences even when their cultures and behaviors differ greatly. Powless shares intimate stories of growing up close to the earth, of his work as Wampum Keeper for the Haudenosaunee people, of his heritage as a lacrosse player, and of the treaties his ancestors made with the newcomers. He also pokes fun at the often-peculiar behavior of his non-Onondaga neighbors, asking, Who are these people anyway? sometimes disarmingly gentle, sometimes caustic, these vignettes refreshingly portray mainstream North American culture as seen through Haudenosaunee eyes. Powless illustrates for all of us the importance of respect, peace, and, most importantly, living by the unwritten laws that preserve the natural world for future generations.

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Free Download White Boy : A Memoir By Mark Naison
2002 | 241 Pages | ISBN: 1566399416 | PDF | 1 MB
How does a Jewish boy who spent the bulk of his childhood on the basketball courts of Brooklyn wind up teaching in one of the city's pioneering black studies departments? Naison's odyssey begins as Brooklyn public schools respond to a new wave of Black migrants and Caribbean immigrants, and established residents flee to virtually all-white parts of the city or suburbs. Already alienated by his parents' stance on race issues and their ambitions for him, he has started on a separate ideological path by the time he enters Columbia College. Once he embarks on a long-term interracial relationship, becomes a member of SDS, focuses his historical work on black activists, and organizes community groups in the Bronx, his immersion in the radical politics of the 1960s has emerged as the center of his life. Determined to keep his ties to the Black community, even when the New Left splits along racial lines, Naison joined the fledgling African American studies program at Fordham, remarkable then as now for its commitment to interracial education.This memoir offers more than a participant's account of the New Left's racial dynamics; it eloquently speaks to the ways in which political commitments emerge from and are infused with the personal choices we all make.

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Free Download Where Humans and Spirits Meet : The Politics of Rituals and Identified Spirits in Zanzibar By Kjersti Larsen
2008 | 184 Pages | ISBN: 1845450558 | PDF | 1 MB
Zanzibar, an island off the East African coast, with its Muslim and Swahili population, offers rich material for this study of identity, religion, and multiculturalism. This book focuses on the phenomenon of spirit possession in Zanzibar Town and the relationships created between humans and spirits; it provides a way to apprehend how society is constituted and conceived and, thus, discusses Zanzibari understandings of what it means to be human.

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Free Download When I Die, Bury Me Well : Death, Burial, Almsgiving, and Restoration in the Book of Tobit By Francis M. Macatangay
2016 | 124 Pages | ISBN: 1498209858 | PDF | 1 MB
"Sennacherib put to death many Israelites. So I stole their bodies to bury them; Sennacherib looked for them and he could not find them." Why do we bury the dead? To honor and respect them? To provide closure and comfort to the living? To provide the dead a final resting place? Tobit buried the dead as the ultimate work of mercy, and its pervasive presence in the narrative discourse of the book of Tobit invites reflection on and consideration of the reason for the practice of burial. The narrative drama radiates a universal sense of what it means to be in exile, namely, that it is an experience of death. Weaving together a complex of ideas related to Israelite interment practices and the reality of Israel's exile from the land given to them by God, this book explores the significance of burial as it relates to God's outstanding promises and Tobit's hopes for the household of Jacob.

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Free Download When Faith Turns Ugly: Understanding Toxic Faith and How to Avoid It By Brian Harris
2016 | 146 Pages | ISBN: 1842278576 | EPUB | 1 MB
Following the huge success of The Tortoise Usually Wins, 2012, and The Big Picture, 2015, in When Faith Turns Ugly Brian Harris explores why the Christian faith sometimes wears two masks - usually life-serving and transforming, but occasionally escapist, illusionary and even poisonous. What are the warning signs that faith is at risk of turning toxic? What do we mean by the conviction that the gospel liberates? Brian Harris' take on what constitutes life-serving faith is refreshing and will be appreciated by all who would like to be sure that their obedience to Jesus the Christ will help to build a world with a better name.

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Free Download When Christ's Body Is Broken : Anxiety, Identity, and Conflict in Congregations By Leanna K. Fuller
2016 | 234 Pages | ISBN: 149820337X | EPUB | 1 MB
When Christ's Body Is Broken tells the stories of two congregations in conflict. Although these churches had very different problems, they faced similar struggles: to articulate a faithful response to their concerns and to cope with the discord that threatened to tear their communities apart. Pastoral theologian Leanna K. Fuller shares these stories as a way of exploring the sources and dynamics of conflict in congregations. She argues that at the heart of such conflict lies anxiety triggered by encounters with difference. Bringing together resources from pastoral theology, psychodynamic theory, and social psychology, Fuller offers a theological reframing of conflict through categories of diversity, vulnerability, and hospitality--categories that, she argues, can encourage human beings to sit with the anxiety stirred by communal life and remain connected across differences. This reframing provides fertile ground out of which Fuller imagines concrete practices designed for conflicted communities and their leaders.

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